Venture money is pouring back into software, but it’s piling up in a handful of names: a record $510 billion flowed into startups in the first half of 2026, and 43% of it went to just two AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic.
For everyone else, you can’t out-spend that kind of concentration. What you can do is build a product people come looking for by name.
So the question we set out to answer is: which software companies, across every category from dev tools to fintech to creative software to security, are actually growing demand right now?
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Here are the 25 software companies whose brand-name search demand has grown the fastest, ranked from highest to lowest growth, each with a trend chart, the key numbers, and a short read on what’s driving them.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +370%
- Search growth forecast: +37%
- Monthly brand searches: 129,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,032,000
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
What they do
Supabase needs little introduction at this point: it’s the open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres that has become a go-to backend for developers who want a full database, auth, and API stack without building it from scratch.
The company has raised over $1 billion in total funding, including a $500 million Series F in June 2026 led by GIC at a $10.5 billion valuation, with Stripe and Salesforce Ventures joining as new investors alongside existing backers Accel and Y Combinator.
A +370% jump in brand search demand makes Supabase the fastest growing company on the whole list, and the number reflects something real: the developer community has coalesced around it as the default backend for a wave of new apps, from weekend projects to production workloads. With ~130K monthly brand searches and 1M in organic traffic, the audience is well past early adopter territory.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +200%
- Search growth forecast: +17%
- Monthly brand searches: 75,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 733,300
- Year founded: 2016
- Location: Austin, TX
What they do
Manychat is a chat marketing platform used by over a million businesses to automate conversations and drive sales on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram.
The company raised $140 million in a Series B in April 2025 led by Summit Partners, bringing total disclosed funding to around $163 million.
Manychat’s +200% growth tracks closely with the broader shift toward conversational commerce, where businesses are replacing static landing pages and email sequences with automated DM flows that convert in real time. Instagram automation in particular has gone from a niche tactic to a mainstream playbook for creators and e-commerce brands, and Manychat is the tool most of them reach for first.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +190%
- Search growth forecast: +7%
- Monthly brand searches: 5,800
- Organic traffic (monthly): 17,100
- Year founded: 2012
- Location: Pleasant Grove, Utah
What they do
Dental Intelligence is a practice analytics and performance platform used by dental offices to track production, collections, scheduling, and team performance from a single dashboard.
The company has raised approximately $34 million in disclosed venture funding, with a $34 million Series A led by K1 Investment Management in 2019, followed by an acquisition by Modento in 2021.
As one of the most established companies on this list, Dental Intelligence has been around since 2012, so a +190% spike in brand searches this year is worth noting. Dental practices have been under real pressure to improve billing efficiency and patient throughput, and platforms that connect practice management data to actionable insights are getting a harder look from owners who previously ran on gut feel and spreadsheets.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +160%
- Search growth forecast: +1%
- Monthly brand searches: 25,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,626,400
- Year founded: 2013
- Location: Yerevan, Yerevan
What they do
Renderforest is an online creative platform used by individuals and small businesses to make videos, logos, mockups, and websites from templates, without needing design skills or software.
The company raised $12 million in an undisclosed round in 2020, with no institutional lead investors publicly named.
Renderforest is one of the highest-traffic sites on this list, pulling in 1.6M organic visitors a month, and its +160% brand search growth suggests it’s converting that reach into genuine brand recognition at a faster clip than before. The template-based creative tools space has gotten crowded, but Renderforest’s breadth across video, logo, and web all in one place seems to be what keeps people coming back by name rather than just landing from search.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +160%
- Search growth forecast: +15%
- Monthly brand searches: 34,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 687,900
- Year founded: 2015
- Location: Madrid, Spain
What they do
Metricool is a social media management and analytics platform used by over a million marketers, agencies, and brands to schedule content, track performance, and manage paid ads across multiple channels.
Since 2022, the company has raised around $4.86 million in total disclosed funding, from Axon Partners Group. The company was subsequently acquired by team.blue in July 2024.
Metricool has quietly built one of the more loyal followings in the social media management space, and its +160% brand search growth on relatively modest funding is a good sign that the product is doing the heavy lifting. The acquisition by team.blue gives it the distribution muscle to expand faster, and the 690K in monthly organic traffic shows it’s already found its audience well beyond the Spanish-speaking market it started in.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +160%
- Search growth forecast: +38%
- Monthly brand searches: 31,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 350,400
- Year founded: 2015
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
What they do
Airwallex is a global payments and financial infrastructure platform used by businesses to manage multi-currency accounts, international transfers, expense cards, and payment processing across borders.
The company has raised a total of $1.8 billion in venture funding, including a $320 million Series H in June 2025 led by Addition at an $11 billion valuation.
Airwallex’s annualized revenue hit $1.3 billion as of March 2026, up 74% year-over-year, and the +160% climb in brand searches reflects a company that’s crossed the threshold from fintech insider pick to a name that finance teams at growing businesses are actively seeking out. The combination of global payment rails, multi-currency wallets, and embedded finance tools is increasingly what companies with cross-border operations need, and Airwallex has positioned itself squarely in that gap.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +150%
- Search growth forecast: +32%
- Monthly brand searches: 7,400
- Organic traffic (monthly): 33,600
- Year founded: 2019
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
WorkOS is an API platform that lets SaaS companies add enterprise features like Single Sign-On, directory sync, and audit logs to their products without building those systems themselves.
The company has raised a total of $198 million in disclosed funding, including a $100 million Series C in March 2026 co-led by Meritech Capital Partners and Sapphire Ventures at a $2 billion valuation.
There’s a very practical reason WorkOS keeps showing up in developer conversations: the moment a SaaS company lands its first serious enterprise prospect, SSO and SCIM go from nice-to-have to deal-blocker overnight, and building them in-house is a multi-month detour. WorkOS has turned that recurring pain point into a clean API product, and its +150% brand search growth suggests more engineering teams are reaching for it rather than reinventing the wheel.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +150%
- Search growth forecast: +16%
- Monthly brand searches: 131,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 354,200
- Year founded: 2019
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
What they do
Tailscale needs little introduction in developer circles: it’s the mesh VPN built on WireGuard that makes private networking feel like it should have always worked this way, with no open ports, no complex firewall rules, and devices that just find each other.
The company has raised a total of $275 million in venture funding, including a $160 million Series C in April 2025 led by Accel at approximately a $1.5 billion valuation.
With ~130K monthly brand searches, Tailscale is one of the biggest brands on this list by that measure, and the +150% growth on top of an already substantial base is what makes this interesting. The big driver, per the company itself, is AI infrastructure: teams building and deploying agents need private networks that connect cloud instances, dev machines, and on-prem services without the overhead of a traditional corporate VPN, and Tailscale fits that use case almost perfectly out of the box.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +130%
- Search growth forecast: +59%
- Monthly brand searches: 8,200
- Organic traffic (monthly): 43,600
- Year founded: 2017
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
RevenueCat is a subscription management and analytics platform used by mobile app developers to handle in-app purchases, paywalls, and revenue tracking across iOS, Android, and the web.
The company has raised a total of $100 million in disclosed funding, including a $50 million Series C in May 2025 led by Bain Capital Ventures.
RevenueCat’s +130% growth in brand searches tracks with a real shift in the app economy: subscription monetization has become the default model for mobile apps of almost any kind, and developers who previously cobbled together StoreKit integrations themselves are now reaching for a purpose-built SDK. The company reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer before raising its Series C, which tells you something about where management thinks the ceiling is.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +120%
- Search growth forecast: +18%
- Monthly brand searches: 2,200
- Organic traffic (monthly): 11,500
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: San Francisco
What they do
Infisical is an open-source secrets management platform that helps development teams store, sync, and access API keys, environment variables, and other credentials securely across their infrastructure.
The company has raised a total of $18.9 million across three rounds, most recently a $16 million Series A in June 2025 led by Elad Gil, with participation from Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator.
As one of the youngest companies on this list, founded in 2022, Infisical’s +120% brand search growth is a meaningful signal for a tool this early. Secrets sprawl, where API keys end up in Slack messages, .env files committed to repos, and spreadsheets, is a genuine operational headache for any team past a handful of engineers, and Infisical has built something that’s both open-source enough for developers to trust and polished enough that platform teams will actually deploy it.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +120%
- Search growth forecast: +5%
- Monthly brand searches: 116,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,107,700
- Year founded: 2015
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
Vercel needs little introduction: it’s the frontend cloud platform that became the default deployment environment for Next.js and the broader React ecosystem, used by everyone from individual developers to enterprise engineering teams at companies like Under Armour and The Washington Post.
The company has raised a total of $563 million in venture funding, including a $300 million Series F in September 2025 co-led by Accel and GIC at a $9.3 billion valuation.
Vercel is one of the highest-traffic sites on this list, with 1.1M monthly organic visitors, so a +120% climb in brand searches on top of that baseline is genuinely impressive. The growth reflects both the continued dominance of Next.js as a framework and the rapid uptake of v0, Vercel’s AI-powered UI generation tool, which has crossed 3.5 million users and pulled in a new cohort of builders who wouldn’t have thought of Vercel as their starting point a year ago.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +110%
- Search growth forecast: +26%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,200
- Organic traffic (monthly): 126,500
- Year founded: 2018
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France
What they do
Favikon is an influencer marketing intelligence platform focused on B2B creators, used by brands and agencies to find, rank, and track social media influencers across professional networks and content categories.
The company has raised approximately $591,000 in a seed round in 2020 from Angelsquare and a small group of angel backers, and appears to have grown largely without outside capital since.
Favikon’s story is a good reminder that brand search growth doesn’t require a large war chest: the company reportedly reached around $22 million in annual revenue on less than $600K in funding. The +110% growth in brand searches suggests the B2B influencer category is maturing fast, with marketers who previously treated LinkedIn creators as an afterthought now actively building programs around them and going looking for the tools to run them.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +110%
- Search growth forecast: +12%
- Monthly brand searches: 79,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 861,000
- Year founded: 2015
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
Netlify is a web development platform used by developers and engineering teams to build, deploy, and host modern web applications, with a focus on serverless functions, edge computing, and continuous deployment.
The company has raised a total of $212 million in venture funding across five rounds, most recently a $105 million Series D in November 2021 led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Netlify is one of the original Jamstack platforms, which means it’s been around long enough to have watched a generation of newer deployment tools emerge around it, and a +110% jump in brand searches suggests it’s not ceding ground quietly. The 860K in monthly organic traffic points to a platform that developers still turn to for documentation, tutorials, and deployment, and the brand search growth may reflect fresh attention from teams exploring edge and serverless architectures who are arriving at Netlify as a known, trusted option.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +100%
- Search growth forecast: +39%
- Monthly brand searches: 3,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 16,500
- Year founded: 2014
- Location: Brussels
What they do
Kpler is a data and analytics platform used by commodity traders, energy companies, and financial institutions to track global trade flows across oil, gas, dry bulk, and containerized cargo in near real time.
The company has raised over $1.2 billion in total funding, including a $1 billion strategic growth equity investment from Sixth Street in June 2026.
Kpler operates in a niche that most people outside commodities trading never encounter, which makes a clean doubling of brand searches in a year a meaningful signal. Global trade data has become commercially and geopolitically sensitive in a way it wasn’t a decade ago, and organizations that need visibility into what’s moving where, and when, are actively seeking out specialized platforms rather than relying on generic financial data terminals.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +99%
- Search growth forecast: +9%
- Monthly brand searches: 400
- Organic traffic (monthly): 42,900
- Year founded: 2017
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
What they do
Socialinsider is a social media analytics and benchmarking platform used by marketers and agencies to analyze content performance, track competitors, and measure channel health across major social networks.
Socialinsider is fully bootstrapped and has raised no outside funding, according to GetLatka.
As one of the smallest brands on the list by monthly searches, Socialinsider’s near-doubling of brand demand is particularly worth noting given it happened with no external capital. The Romanian team has built a product that marketers seem to recommend to each other: the 40K in monthly organic traffic is mostly driven by content, and the brand search uptick suggests that content is converting into an audience that now goes looking for the product by name rather than landing on it by accident.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +90%
- Search growth forecast: +5%
- Monthly brand searches: 6,900
- Organic traffic (monthly): 13,900
- Year founded: 2018
- Location: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
What they do
accessiBe is a web accessibility platform used by businesses to make their websites compliant with ADA and WCAG standards, using AI-powered tools that handle both automated remediation and ongoing monitoring.
The company has raised a total of $58 million in venture funding across two rounds, both led by K1 Investment Management, with the most recent being a $30 million Series A extension in August 2022.
Web accessibility has shifted from a compliance footnote to a genuine business risk, driven by a steady stream of ADA-related lawsuits targeting companies of all sizes, and that’s pulling more website owners into the market for automated solutions. accessiBe’s +90% growth in brand searches reflects a category that’s been quietly building momentum, particularly among SMBs and agencies who need a straightforward way to demonstrate compliance without hiring a specialist.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +89%
- Search growth forecast: +18%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,100
- Organic traffic (monthly): 32,200
- Year founded: 2016
- Location: Singapore
What they do
Parseur is an AI-powered document parsing tool used by businesses and developers to automatically extract structured data from emails, PDFs, and other documents, then route it to other systems.
Parseur is bootstrapped and has not raised any venture funding, as confirmed by Tracxn.
Document parsing is one of those unsexy, deeply useful problems that sits at the heart of almost every operations workflow, and Parseur has found an audience by solving it cleanly without asking teams to write code or maintain infrastructure. The +89% rise in brand searches, on a base that’s still relatively small, suggests word-of-mouth is compounding: teams that save hours a week on manual data extraction tend to tell other teams about it.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +84%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,100
- Year founded: 2018
- Location: San Francisco, CA
What they do
Flockjay is a sales enablement platform used by sales teams to manage content, run training, and surface coaching moments, combining learning management and content management in a single tool.
The company has raised a total of approximately $14.3 million in venture funding, including an $11 million Series A in January 2021 led by Headline, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, and Salesforce Ventures.
Flockjay is one of the lowest-traffic sites on this list, with organic traffic still in the low thousands, which makes its +84% jump in brand searches an interesting early signal. Sales enablement has become a crowded space, but the companies gaining traction tend to be the ones that bring content and coaching into the same workflow rather than forcing reps to switch between tools, and that’s the angle Flockjay is pushing.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +82%
- Search growth forecast: +26%
- Monthly brand searches: 2,900
- Organic traffic (monthly): 56,100
- Year founded: 2016
- Location: New York City, New York
What they do
CloudTalk is a cloud-based business calling platform used by sales and support teams to manage calls, run dialers, and integrate voice communication with CRM and helpdesk tools.
The company has raised a total of $38.4 million across four rounds, most recently a $28 million Series B in January 2024 co-led by KPN Ventures and Lead Ventures.
Business calling software has been due for a refresh, and CloudTalk’s +82% growth in brand searches suggests sales and ops teams are actively shopping for alternatives to legacy phone systems that were built before AI-powered analytics and CRM-native integrations were expected features. The 60K in monthly organic traffic shows the content engine is working, and the search growth on top of that points to a brand that’s starting to pull rather than just push.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +82%
- Search growth forecast: +29%
- Monthly brand searches: 21,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 260,800
- Year founded: 2013
- Location: Austin, Texas
What they do
NinjaOne is an IT management platform used by managed service providers and internal IT teams to handle endpoint monitoring, patch management, remote access, and device security across distributed environments.
The company has raised a total of $761.5 million in disclosed funding, including a $500 million Series C extension in February 2025 co-led by ICONIQ Growth and CapitalG at a $5 billion valuation.
NinjaOne crossed $500 million ARR in early 2025, and the +82% jump in brand searches points to a platform that’s moved well beyond its MSP roots into a broader IT management category. With the attack surface for businesses expanding and remote and hybrid work keeping endpoint sprawl firmly in place, IT teams are actively consolidating tooling onto fewer platforms, and NinjaOne seems to be one of the main beneficiaries of that consolidation.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +78%
- Search growth forecast: +0%
- Monthly brand searches: 5,500
- Organic traffic (monthly): 4,100
- Year founded: 2019
- Location: London
What they do
Hopin is an events and live streaming technology company whose current product suite includes StreamYard, Streamable, and Session, used by creators, media companies, and brands to produce and distribute live video content.
Hopin raised a total of $1.12 billion across seven rounds, most recently a $450 million Series D in August 2021, before the company was reported as liquidated in early 2024.
Hopin’s is one of the more complicated stories on this list: the company burned through over a billion dollars, underwent a dramatic downsizing, and liquidated its core events business, but the brand name lived on through StreamYard and the other products that found new homes. The +78% growth in brand searches likely reflects renewed curiosity about what Hopin actually is today, as creators and live streaming teams encounter StreamYard and trace it back to the parent brand.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +77%
- Search growth forecast: +15%
- Monthly brand searches: 7,300
- Organic traffic (monthly): 269,100
- Year founded: 2011
- Location: Las Vegas, NV
What they do
IPQS is a fraud detection and threat intelligence platform used by businesses to identify malicious IP addresses, detect bot traffic, validate email and phone data, and reduce ad fraud across digital channels.
IPQS’s funding is not publicly disclosed; the company appears to be privately held and self-funded, per available sources.
IPQS is one of the most established companies on this list, founded in 2011, so its +77% lift in brand searches this year is the kind of growth you’d expect from a product hitting a genuine inflection point rather than simply maturing. Fraud prevention has become a higher priority across marketing, e-commerce, and financial services as click fraud and synthetic identity abuse have gotten more sophisticated, and IPQS’s 270K in monthly organic traffic suggests it’s built a strong content presence that’s increasingly converting into direct brand demand.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +76%
- Search growth forecast: +3%
- Monthly brand searches: 3,200
- Organic traffic (monthly): 13,700
- Year founded: 2019
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
Amplemarket is an AI-powered sales platform used by revenue teams to find prospects, personalize outreach, and manage multi-channel sales sequences across email, LinkedIn, and phone.
The company has raised a total of $12 million in venture funding, including a $12 million Series A in April 2022 co-led by Comcast Ventures and Armilar Venture Partners.
Amplemarket’s +76% growth in brand searches comes against a backdrop where sales tooling has become increasingly commoditized at the lower end, and the platforms pulling ahead are those that combine prospecting data, buying intent signals, and sequencing in a way that reduces the number of tabs a rep has to manage. Customers like Deel and Rippling have talked publicly about the platform, and that kind of peer-to-peer advocacy tends to be the main driver of the unprompted, name-first search behavior this list measures.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +73%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 700
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,300
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: New York, NY
What they do
Topline Pro is a generative AI platform built for home services businesses, helping contractors and tradespeople get a website, manage local listings, automate social media, and accept online bookings from a single product.
The company has raised a total of $44 million across three rounds, most recently a $27 million Series B in August 2025 led by Northzone.
Topline Pro is one of the smallest brands on the list by monthly searches, which makes its +73% growth a stronger signal than the raw number might suggest. Home services is a massive, fragmented market where most businesses still rely on word of mouth and third-party lead platforms, and Topline Pro is betting that a generation of tradespeople who want to own their own customer relationships will pay for the tools to make that happen.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +72%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 900
- Organic traffic (monthly): 4,500
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
What they do
MarqVision is an AI-powered brand protection platform used by global consumer brands to detect and remove counterfeit products from online marketplaces, social platforms, and rogue websites across more than 1,500 channels.
The company has raised a total of $90 million in venture funding, including a $48 million Series B in September 2025 led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Y Combinator.
As one of the youngest companies on this list, founded in 2020, MarqVision’s +72% growth in brand searches reflects how seriously brands are now treating counterfeiting as an operational problem rather than a legal department issue. The rise of cross-border e-commerce and AI-generated product imagery has made it easier than ever to spin up convincing fakes at scale, and the brands being hurt most are the ones actively shopping for solutions, which is exactly the behavior this search growth data captures.
The full 50: fastest-growing SaaS companies by brand search
| # | Company | Industry | Brand search growth | Monthly brand searches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Supabase | Dev tools | +370% (this year vs last) | 129,000 |
| 2 | Manychat | Marketing | +200% (this year vs last) | 75,000 |
| 3 | Dental Intelligence Inc. | Healthcare | +190% (this year vs last) | 5,800 |
| 4 | Renderforest | Design | +160% (this year vs last) | 25,000 |
| 5 | Metricool | Marketing | +160% (this year vs last) | 34,000 |
| 6 | Airwallex | Fintech | +160% (this year vs last) | 31,000 |
| 7 | WorkOS | Dev tools | +150% (this year vs last) | 7,400 |
| 8 | Tailscale | Security | +150% (this year vs last) | 131,000 |
| 9 | RevenueCat | Dev tools | +130% (this year vs last) | 8,200 |
| 10 | Infisical | Dev tools | +120% (this year vs last) | 2,200 |
| 11 | Vercel | Dev tools | +120% (this year vs last) | 116,000 |
| 12 | Favikon | Marketing | +110% (this year vs last) | 1,200 |
| 13 | Netlify | Dev tools | +110% (this year vs last) | 79,000 |
| 14 | Kpler | Data infrastructure | +100% (this year vs last) | 3,000 |
| 15 | Socialinsider | Analytics | +99% (this year vs last) | 400 |
| 16 | accessiBe | Accessibility | +90% (this year vs last) | 6,900 |
| 17 | Parseur | AI / ML | +89% (this year vs last) | 1,100 |
| 18 | Flockjay | Sales / CRM | +84% (this year vs last) | 1,000 |
| 19 | CloudTalk | Customer support | +82% (this year vs last) | 2,900 |
| 20 | NinjaOne | IT management | +82% (this year vs last) | 21,000 |
| 21 | Hopin | Video | +78% (this year vs last) | 5,500 |
| 22 | IPQS | Security | +77% (this year vs last) | 7,300 |
| 23 | Amplemarket | Sales / CRM | +76% (this year vs last) | 3,200 |
| 24 | Topline Pro | Marketing | +73% (this year vs last) | 700 |
| 25 | MarqVision | Security | +72% (this year vs last) | 900 |
| 26 | Rippling | HR | +72% (this year vs last) | 265,000 |
| 27 | Flock Safety | Security | +67% (this year vs last) | 55,000 |
| 28 | Storylane | Sales / CRM | +67% (this year vs last) | 3,600 |
| 29 | Adalo | No-code | +64% (this year vs last) | 9,800 |
| 30 | Sumsub | Security | +63% (this year vs last) | 4,500 |
| 31 | Human Interest | Fintech | +63% (this year vs last) | 29,000 |
| 32 | Roboflow | AI / ML | +63% (this year vs last) | 17,000 |
| 33 | Upflow | Fintech | +58% (this year vs last) | 800 |
| 34 | Tipalti | Fintech | +56% (this year vs last) | 26,000 |
| 35 | PDFMonkey | Dev tools | +52% (this year vs last) | 350 |
| 36 | Copyleaks | AI / ML | +52% (this year vs last) | 47,000 |
| 37 | EmailOctopus | Marketing | +52% (this year vs last) | 1,600 |
| 38 | ClickUp | Productivity | +49% (this year vs last) | 167,000 |
| 39 | Rootly | Dev tools | +48% (this year vs last) | 1,700 |
| 40 | MailerLite | Marketing | +47% (this year vs last) | 56,000 |
| 41 | Cyble Inc. | Security | +44% (this year vs last) | 2,300 |
| 42 | Databricks | Data infrastructure | +44% (this year vs last) | 159,000 |
| 43 | Descript | Video | +42% (this year vs last) | 87,000 |
| 44 | Middesk | Fintech | +39% (this year vs last) | 3,000 |
| 45 | Oneleet | Security | +38% (this year vs last) | 1,000 |
| 46 | Coursedog | Education | +38% (this year vs last) | 5,600 |
| 47 | axiom.ai | No-code | +36% (this year vs last) | 91,000 |
| 48 | OpenReplay | Dev tools | +36% (this year vs last) | 400 |
| 49 | AppTweak | Analytics | +35% (this year vs last) | 2,900 |
| 50 | Elegoo | Hardware | +35% (this year vs last) | 26,000 |
Brand search growth = growth in average monthly searches for the company name this year versus last year (last 12 months vs the prior 12 months). Monthly brand searches = current US search volume for the brand name. Data: Ahrefs · July 2026.
You can rebuild this entire analysis yourself in Ahrefs. Here’s the short version:
- Open Keywords Explorer, enter a company’s brand name as the keyword, and look at the Volume graph. The trend over the last few years is the brand-search growth we ranked on, and the forecast line is Ahrefs’ projection.
- To compare many companies at once, drop a list of brand names into Keywords Explorer and sort by Volume or by Growth to see which names are climbing fastest.
- Use Site Explorer on each company’s domain to pull the Organic traffic, Referring domains, and other figures in the profiles above.
- Or skip the manual work and let Agent A run the whole pull, filtering, and ranking for any niche you choose, the same way it built this list.
What stands out across this list of fastest growing SaaS companies is the sheer variety of the categories: developer infrastructure, payments, social analytics, IT management, fraud detection, web accessibility, and home services platforms all appear here, which is a useful reminder that search demand growth is a product quality signal, not a sector-specific one.
A lot of these are fastest growing companies that built their audiences on genuine utility, many of them bootstrapped or lightly funded, growing their brand searches steadily before anyone outside their niche was paying attention.
If you want to know where real software demand is forming before it shows up in funding announcements and TechCrunch headlines, these are the names worth watching.
